Streets in some areas of Davis fall under different naming schemes. Read on to discover some of these themes and information about the history of neighborhood development in the city. You may also be interested in what happens when these streets run into each other at intersections.

Please contribute what you can! We hope to eventually have information about each area, not just a list of street names.

Note that, with streets named after Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, Davis is one turtle short of a quartet of heroes in a half shell. This may have happened when Eastman and Laird killed off Donatello for a couple issues. Splinter ended up rejuvenating him later with a slice of pizza.

Bird Species

Location:North DavisDescription:History: These streets are part of the Northstar development.

Circular

Location: South of Davis Cemetery off of Pole Line RoadDescription: These are streets in Rancho Yolo Senior Citizen Community mobile home park. (Some of the circular streets, if not all, were replaced by other names though at the end of 2005)

Bidwell Street and Fremont Court are also circular streets, but they don't have the circular name feature. (As featured in the 1976 Yearbook of Agriculture (left) and a recent photo from Bing Map's "birds eye view" (right))

English Alphabet

Letter-only streets

Location: North-South streets emanating from the center of Davis. Description: These streets make up the downtown and surrounding area. They are named after letters in the English alphabet, and go in English alphabetical order, as so:

Alphabetical street names

Location: Several separate series of alphabetical East-West streets north of West Covell Boulevard. Description: These streets make up much of the residential area north of West Covell between Highway 113 and Pole Line Road. They go in English alphabetical order, as so (series in West-to-East order):

Alvarado series:

Alvarado Avenue

Bianco Court

Corona Drive

Diego Place

Equador Place

Flamenco Place

[No G in this series]

Hermosa Place

Isla Place

Anza series 1:

Anza Avenue

Barbera Place

Cordova Place

Del Oro Place

Estrella Place

Francisco Place

Anza series 2 (the first part of which is copied from streets in San Francisco):

Local People

Location: Various Description: These streets are named after historically notable local people. Some distinction between Farmers and Ranchers and Non-Farmers and Ranchers may not be accurate. History: Varies by individual

Haussler Drive — named after John Haussler, who once owned most of the Bowers Addition and portions of what are now Central and East Davis, including the Albertson's Shopping Center. One of the family homes is surrounded by the Green Meadows development.

Numbers

Location: Downtown & Old North Davis Description:History:First through Fifth bounded by A and H are part of the original Core Area; Fifth through Eighth is the "Bowers Addition," or Old North Davis, while Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh were constructed just after World War II. Twelfth and Fourteenth came along not too long after. As Davis grew eastward, the streets were extended first into what some people call "Old East Davis," and then northward as the city grew. East of the tracks, the numbered streets only go from Second to Eighth.

Rivers

Location: West of Highway 113; bordered by Village Homes, Russell Blvd., and Lake Blvd. Description: These streets mark the West Manor subdivision of homes built by Stanley Davis Co. in the late 1970s. The streets are named for well-known and not-so-well-known rivers around the globe.